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Mark Giszczak has written a book about the dark passages of scripture. Very interesting talk on Catholic Answers. You can find the book on Amazon.
"In the book, I deal with a lot of the passages that give Bible readers grief: the killing of the Canaanites, child sacrifice, innocent suffering, the problem of Hell. I sort through these problems in a detailed, yet accessible way and try to get the bottom of how it is the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament could be the same. I hope you enjoy the book!"
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Get a King James 1611 and hold it in you're right hand and hold the catholic bible in you're left now open both to a familiar passage and compare. It's easy to see which is a derivative of which.
...and learn the references of "few" and "many" world, you're Soul depends on it.
Get a King James 1611 and hold it in you're right hand and hold the catholic bible in you're left now open both to a familiar passage and compare. It's easy to see which is a derivative of which.
...and learn the references of "few" and "many" world, you're Soul depends on it.
The problem for God in the old Testament is that He did not have spiritual authority in the earth , as He gave that to man , and man rejected God from Adam , so God heavenly Host did not have the power to overcome the devil in the earth and these Angels of God were equal in power to the devil ...... So to exert power with the devil authority over people was to just kill them all , and the devil would be challenged ...........See God had a plan to bring in the messiah to the earth and all of Gods motives was this , and after the Cross of Jesus God had His judgment for the earth to remove the devil with power multi more then the power of the devil ..................See the hard God of the past was the lack of spiritual authority of God , and then the tribulation of the future would come because the apostasy of grace for the saints will limit Gods authority because prayers will go unheard , so God will need to be harder then
The problem for God in the old Testament is that He did not have spiritual authority in the earth , as He gave that to man , and man rejected God from Adam , so God heavenly Host did not have the power to overcome the devil in the earth and these Angels of God were equal in power to the devil ...... So to exert power with the devil authority over people was to just kill them all , and the devil would be challenged ...........See God had a plan to bring in the messiah to the earth and all of Gods motives was this , and after the Cross of Jesus God had His judgment for the earth to remove the devil with power multi more then the power of the devil ..................See the hard God of the past was the lack of spiritual authority of God , and then the tribulation of the future would come because the apostasy of grace for the saints will limit Gods authority because prayers will go unheard , so God will need to be harder then
This god of yours is the biggest bungler in the universe. Think of it: he created everything and then sat idly by while everything went to hell because of satan. His only solution was to promise a savior to save us from our sins, but not to fix everything that went wrong while he was asleep at the switch.
The God of the universe I believe in (deism's God---the TRUE God) says that God has everything in control and created natural laws to govern earthly and universal matter. After death we are a different ream apart from this universe where all things are righted. Depending on how we learned to help each other here determines how we exist in the next world, whether we go back to school to learn how to treat people with kindness (Matthew 25:41-46) or live in complete bliss if we did follow Jesus' command in Matthew 25:34-40.
This god of yours is the biggest bungler in the universe. Think of it: he created everything and then sat idly by while everything went to hell because of satan. His only solution was to promise a savior to save us from our sins, but not to fix everything that went wrong while he was asleep at the switch.
The God of the universe I believe in (deism's God---the TRUE God) says that God has everything in control and created natural laws to govern earthly and universal matter. After death we are a different ream apart from this universe where all things are righted. Depending on how we learned to help each other here determines how we exist in the next world, whether we go back to school to learn how to treat people with kindness (Matthew 25:41-46) or live in complete bliss if we did follow Jesus' command in Matthew 25:34-40.
What is boggling is how you can reject the God of the Old Testament in one breath, and in the next lean on the authority of Christ. Christ time and again confirmed the God of the Old Testament. If you hand-wave the Old Testament it puts you in a logically untenable position. Either God is a bungler, as you say, and Christ is a liar and not to be trusted, or God is, well God and Christ is His Son.
Contrary to most of the posters on this forum, the Scripture is not a buffet where you can choose what to take and what to leave.
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Contrary to most of the posters on this forum, the Scripture is not a buffet where you can choose what to take and what to leave.
That is exactly what Scripture is.
Fortunately, as you noted, most of the posters on this forum are equipped with enough education, smarts and rationality to sift the crap out of the bible and savour what's left.
And then there's the few like you who eat the whole disgusting mess.
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